CloudShare Blog

CloudShare API – GA

By Danielle Arad - May 19, 2013

2 min read

We are excited to announce that CloudShare API is now GA.

If you are a developer, you can access CloudShare functionality through the CloudShare API. For example, you can create, launch and manage the lifecycle of your environments, automate your build and deployment processes, run automated testing or build your own workflows for utilizing CloudShare. The API lets you integrate CloudShare environments and features with your own applications.

CloudShare API includes three main categories:

Environments – Manage the lifecycle of your environments. You can launch environments from blueprints, suspend/resume the environments, add/remove VMs and much more

Snapshots – Take snapshots of environments, which are saved. Snapshots can be used when creating new environments, or to be restored onto existing environments to start them in a specific state

End User Invitations – Prepare and send invitations to end users to use environments from your blueprints. You can create a ‘free hosted trial’ for your software, integrate with your CRM and more

For example, assuming you run your nightly builds on-premise, and would like to deploy your builds to CloudShare, so every morning the QA team can instantly run your application environment with the latest build so they can start testing before finishing their first cup of coffee – see how simple the workflow is utilizing CloudShare API: